Blue skies prevail! A fine weekend for some Duke of Edinburgh’s Award expedition training. Saturday proved to be a very enjoyable day, assisting a few teams of students as they completed their training hike. Good navigation, good tent pitching, but further work required with camp cooking. Who knew that pasta needs water to cook in?! Read more

Another non-stop three days, that began by exploring down a deep river gorge in south Snowdonia. I’ve been meaning to go for years, but finally, timings and team coincided. Armed with some scant knowledge, a wetsuit, helmet, harness, and some rope, we descended by abseil down the biggest waterfalls, while jumping the smaller ones. It Read more

With a couple of hours free this afternoon, we dashed over to the quarries to get a climb in. A hurried exit from our kit store meant that on arrival at the base of the cliff, it soon transpired that we hadn’t brought all the correct kit with us! It’s been a month or so Read more

First Duke of Edinburgh’s Award expedition for me this weekend – which started with a lesson about which food is likely to travel best in a well-packed rucsack. After some debate, the eggs were returned to the shelves! We were loosely following the coastal path on Anglesey and enjoyed some beautiful sunshine, but a cold Read more

With more snow forecast and less than ideal conditions on the hill, our aim of crossing Crib Goch today was looking a little optimistic at first. Especially as we weren’t setting out until 14:00. We set off with plenty of options and Plan B’s in mind, but amazingly, things looked like they might just hold Read more

After a spectacular sunset that made the hills above the house glow red, I enjoyed a very different day, working as safety cover for a sailing regatta! It’s been a while since I’d been on the water in a powerboat, but thankfully I could still remember what to do and only had the engine conk Read more